It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your… — Winston Churchill Copy Share
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one… — Winston Churchill Copy Share
People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time… — Winston Churchill Copy Share
To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
